Using a 4800 liner business for raking this year, and really struggling to get it to clean the ground while maintaining any kind of forward speed. Just into it's 3rd season.
Biggest difference seems to be how tight the stubble is left from the mowers. If it is left long, it can clean the ground well without any contamination, and 10-11kph is no issue. That and grass with a decent stem.
The issue is that younger leafy dairy cow silage, no matter how we play with the rotor heights, PTO drive speeds, row spacing, it seems to struggle to clean the ground well. Unless you're only doing 7-8.5kph it starts to skip or miss bits. With the harvester fit for much faster, you're not long getting caught up with an hour or 2's head start, which is all we normally get in the thick of first cut.
We put it down to the tines being into their 3rd year, but would rather not start to replace them all. Runs into a scary cost.
Anything we're missing that'll help keep the forward speed up on set up?
Biggest difference seems to be how tight the stubble is left from the mowers. If it is left long, it can clean the ground well without any contamination, and 10-11kph is no issue. That and grass with a decent stem.
The issue is that younger leafy dairy cow silage, no matter how we play with the rotor heights, PTO drive speeds, row spacing, it seems to struggle to clean the ground well. Unless you're only doing 7-8.5kph it starts to skip or miss bits. With the harvester fit for much faster, you're not long getting caught up with an hour or 2's head start, which is all we normally get in the thick of first cut.
We put it down to the tines being into their 3rd year, but would rather not start to replace them all. Runs into a scary cost.
Anything we're missing that'll help keep the forward speed up on set up?
